Superintendent Engineering

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Work Location: Iron Bridge - Fortescue’s Iron Bridge project is located on the traditional lands of the Nyamal people.

Roster: 4:3 FIFO ex Perth

Employment Type: The advertised position is for a fixed term of 12 months.

Iron Bridge signifies Fortescue’s entry into the high grade segment of the iron ore market, providing an enhanced product range while also increasing annual production and shipping capacity. Located 145km south of Port Hedland, Iron Bridge is Fortescue’s first magnetite operation and incorporates the North Star and Glacier Valley Magnetite ore bodies.

• Promote and implement risk reduction via the exposure risk reduction program and the potential loss of life program
• Establish and sustain key engineering and reliability systems, processes and tools to support continuous improvement with safe and cost-effective plant reliability
• Support maintenance execution and the maintenance work management process
• Provide leadership, direction and support for the engineering and reliability and maintenance engineering teams
• Identify and manage asset reliability risks centred around equipment life cycle
• Ensure maintenance is in line with strategies and tactics to form a critical part of the maintenance annual planning and budgeting process
• Identify sustaining capital improvement projects and the management thereof via internal resources and/or liaising with the operational projects team in Perth
• Ensure plant performance is reported upon Daily/Weekly/Monthly through different media by engaging all key stakeholders
• Ensure FMECA/RCA (Root Cause Analysis) are conducted for failures, provide improvement actions and monitor implementation of actions through solid reliability processes
• Ensure Condition Monitoring processes, including ultrasonic (and phased array UT) pipeline inspections, vibration analysis of rotating gear, infrared inspections, fracture/failure analysis and others are applied to accurately determine equipment condition
• Manage OPEX and Capex improvement projects assigned to the engineering team
• Ensure data and reporting systems are established, maintained, value adding and suitable for tracking plant performance and identification of issues and trends.

• High performing leader with demonstrated experience leading and motivating multidiscipline engineering, reliability, operational teams across the mining industry.
• An Australian recognised Engineering Degree or similar
• Post-graduate qualification in Reliability or Project Management (preferred)
• Strong safety leadership skills and actively promote safe work initiatives.
• Demonstrated budget management experience
• A collaborative leader with strong communication, influence and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Change management leadership experience
• Creative thinking and problem-solving capability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Planning and stakeholder management skills
   

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.